Monday, the 21 of November 2011

Now that the nights are drawing in and there is definite chill in the air, I wonder if there is any chance of a snow day soon?????

• Assembly: There is no college assembly this week due to mock exams.
• Children in Need:  This was held at lunch time today and went very well, all the cakes were sold out. We are still trying to raise money this week with our ' Guess the Smarties' competition so please encourage people to have a go and take part. We will be putting a notice up on Serco too.
• Parent Mail: Please keep at it.
• Student Update: Pupils failing to turn up to Tutor Time at all:  This issue will be discussed in our CAL meeting this week. Val has found a way of accessing this data eaisly so you do not need to worry to keep sending your names through. ( Smile Matt!) I will feedback to you after our meeting, if you have any issues you would like me to raise at this meeting, please let me know.
• Uniform: Please keep at it, the message about boots is getting through.
• Achievement points: The College with the most achievement points at the end of this term gets treated to breakfast in the canteen. At the minute we our fifth. Whe I looked at the figures it did start me wondering wheter or not we are actually giving enough achievement points as tutors and a college. I know Donna is brilliant at remembering to do this, she is always giving achievement points for things like uniform, behaviour, punctuality etc. Let's all try to reward as many of our lovely Curie College students as we can between now and Christmas. ( Yes, this includes you too Andy!)
• My Birthday: Next Week Monday is my Birthday and it is a big one for me this year. Lynne is so keen to celebrate it that I came into work today to a Happy Birthday banner, flowers and chocolates. It was a lovely way to start the week! I will definitely be going down to the A&G on Friday, as it marks the start of the last weekend of my thirties, and it would be lovely to see you there to help me celebrate/commiserate?

Have a good week, in my case it can only be better that last week!

Monday, 14 November 2011

Thank you for all your valuable input in our College meeting last Wednesday, it is much appreciated, and I did raise all the points you mentioned at our CAL's meeting that same afternoon.

• Assembly: There is no college assembly this week.
• Children in Need: TThis event is on Friday. The College Captains are going to organise and hold a cake sale on Friday in the bottom of J Block. Kayleigh and Sandra will be coming around to Tutor groups this week to encourage your groups to contribute something to the sale. It would be brilliant if you could help out by pushing this and perhaps putting together a list for your group of who will bring what. We also need posters to advertise this event around the school, so get your groups to be creative!
• College Meeting: This was held on Wednesday 9/11 in C26. Mintues to follow this week. I did email you all feedback from the Cal meeting but have put it here again in case you missed it:
• 1)      I mentioned all the issues that you raised today re: RFL and here are the answers. We all agreed to the following:
  
  
  ·        If a pupil is on any report (Tutor/ CAL/CAD/ HEAD) you still need to put the appropriate departmental sanctions in place if they are not behaving/ arriving on time to your lessons. This will then be supported by the work being done by the person who is dealing with that pupil’s report.
  ·        Pupils who are sent out of a lesson but refuse department support and end up at their college or ASC still need to be given a departmental detention/sanction which is to set/organised by the teacher who sent them out.
  ·        It is important to let College Assistants know when you put any one on green tutor report and when they need to remove them from Serco. You also need to put their targets on Serco yourself as a pastoral comment.
  ·        It was agreed that no one will be in boots in lessons, even if they have a note. They MUST be out of circulation until they are in the correct uniform.
  ·        The issue of repeat offenders is going to be the only thing on our next CAL meeting, so I will get back to you with more info on this then.
  
  
  
  
  Please can you also let me know by Friday which of your Tutor group you have decided to place on green report and why, so we can flag it up on Serco. Can you also let me know if you have managed to make contact with home/ parents to explain the reasons why you have taken this action. If you have not put anyone on report, I would like to know that too.
  
  

• Parent Mail: You were given a photocopied list at our meeting which will contained all the names of pupils whose parents we still don't have email contact details. Please keep at it.
• Student Update: The following pupils are now on Orange CAL report: Will Turner, Abi Noble, Miriam Bibi, Shannon Collier, Jenny Smith, Abraham Harris Foster, Isaac Mbaki, Olivia Franklin, Sannah Siddique.  (Harry Gibbs, Asaad Mohammed, Humza Mohammed are also on report but without the cards, I have contacted all their teachers)
• Pupils failing to turn up to Tutor Time at all:  A descion has been made that these pupils will now make up this time at the end of the day, so they will stay till half three every time they fail to arrive at all to tutor time. Thank you for continuing to help us with this by sending us their names, we are looking into trying to get this information in a more time effective/ reliable way.  Can I also just remind you that if pupils in your tutor group are arriving late to your tutor time more than once a week , they should be doing break/ lunchtime detentions with you to make it up.   
• Uniform: Please remember to do a thorough check of uniform every morning. There are too many girl's trying to get away with boots. Also some boys are trying their luck in terms of their footwear. Please be vigilant as it is really important that we don't let this slide. 

Thanks and have a good week

Monday, 7th of November 2011

Hope you all had a restful half term, although after just a week back it does feel very much like a distant memory. Is it too soon to be thinking about our Xmas holidays just yet...

As we don't have College briefing on Monday morning, please can you make sure that you read through the information here carefully.

• Assembly: There is assembly Monday morning for Year 7, please register them and then send them straight down to the Assembly Hall. There is full College Assembly on Wednesday morning.  
• Reward Certificates: These went into tutor bags last week, please make sure they are given out.
• College Meeting: This was held on Wednesday 9/11 in C26. We start at 2pm and have 2 hours allocated to college work. The first hour we will meet all together and then the second hour will be for you do some follow up work. If you can not attend this meeting, please can you let me know before hand. Agenda will follow this week. (Please let me know if want me to add any AOBs)
• Year 7 Settling In Interviews: Thank you for returning your info to me about which of these are still outstanding. Please follow up with any parents that you have not yet made contact with, as a matter of urgency. If you need help contacting any parents, please let Lynne and I know. Please remember to make a brief note on Serco about your meeting, and alert us if there are any issues that we need to follow up on.
• Parent Mail: You will be given a photocopied list at our meeting this week which will contain all the names of pupils whose parents we still don't have email contact details. Please can you hound them to provide you with a working email adress as soon as possible. There is a prize for the tutor group who gets theirs all in first.
• College Captains:  We took all the Senior College Captains out for a leadership conference and then dinner this week. It was the most inspirational, uplifting afternoon I have had in a long time. Kayleigh and Sandra did us very proud! They are going to be wonderful representatives for Curie College.
•  Student Update: I will have copies of these for the month of October ready for us to discussof at our meeting on Wednesday.
• Uniform: Please remember to do a thorough check of uniform every morning. There are too many girl's trying to get away with boots. Also some boys are trying their luck in terms of their footwear. Please be vigilant as it is really important that we don't let this slide. 

Thanks and have a good week!